15 - Islam is the faith of all prophets

عن أبي هُرَيرة رضى الله عنه قال: قال رسول الله«أنا أَوْلى الناس بعِيسى بنِ مَريمَ في الدنيا والآخرةِ، والأنبياءُ إِخْوَةٌ لِعَلَّاتٍ؛ أمهاتُهم شتَّى، ودِينُهم واحدٌ»، وفي رواية: «ليس بَيْني وبينَه نَبِيٌّ».


Abu Hurayrah narrated that God’s Messenger (peace be upon him) said:

  I am the closest of all people to Jesus son of Mary in both this life and the life to come.  Prophets are siblings, having different mothers, but their faith is one.  Another version adds: There was no other Prophet between us.

Related Quranic Verses


The Messenger believes in what has been revealed to him by his Lord, and so do the believers. Each one of them believes in God, His angels, His books, and His messengers. We make no distinction between any of His messengers.

(2: 285)

The only true faith acceptable to God is Islam [i.e. man’s self-surrender to Him].

(3: 19)

It is He who has chosen you, and has laid no hardship on you in [anything that pertains to] religion; the creed of your forefather Abraham. It is He who has named you Muslims, in bygone times and in this [Book], so that the Messenger might bear witness for you, and that you might bear witness for all mankind.

(22: 78)

And also Jesus, the son of Mary, said:

‘Children of Israel! I am God’s messenger to you, [sent] to confirm the Torah revealed before me, and to give news of a messenger that will come after me, whose name shall be Ahmad’.

(61: 6)

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